Name: Viswanathan Anand
Age: 49
Country: India
World ranking: No. 7
Name: Levon Aronian
Age: 36
Counry: Armenia
World ranking: No. 12
Name: Francisco Vallejo Pons
Age: 36
Country: Spain
World ranking 43
Name: Georg Meier
Age: 31
Country: Germany
World ranking: No. 152
Name: Magnus Carlsen
Age: 28
Country: Norway
World ranking: No. 1
Name: Arkadij Naiditsch
Age: 33
Country: Azerbaijan
World ranking: No. 42
Name: Peter Svidler
Age: 42
Country: Russia
World ranking: No. 19
Name: Fabiano Caruana
Age: 26
Country: USA
World ranking: No. 2
Name: Vincent Keymer
Age: 14
Country: Germany
World ranking: No. 6 (U16)
Name: Maxime Vachier-Lagrave
Age: 28
Country: France
World ranking: No. 7
Exciting games abound the antepenultimate round of the GRENKE Chess Classic as full-blooded battles were witnessed on every board. A welcome change this time was that Magnus Carlsen got to take a break from his long battles and was, in fact, the first one to finish his game in the seventh round. With this, he retained his one point lead while the list of his pursuers dropped from six to one. After the dust of the battles had settled, Caruana was the only one to keep the one point distance with his win over Arkadij Naiditsch.
Read more: Round 7: Carlsen takes another stride towards the title
The sixth round of the GRENKE Chess Classic saw a drastic change at the top of the leaderboard. Magnus Carlsen took sole lead in the tournament after beating local GM Georg Meier. After this win, Magnus is a full point ahead of the field as his co-leader, GM Vishy Anand suffered a crushing defeat at the hands of GM Arkadij Naiditsch. In another important result of the day, 14-year-old Vincent Keymer bridged a rating gap of 247 points to hold world number 10, GM Levon Aronian to a draw.
Read more: Video Impressions | Round 6 | GRENKE Chess Classic 2019
Magnus Carlsen and Viswanathan Anand retained their tournament lead at the conclusion of the fifth round of the GRENKE Chess Classic in Karlsruhe. Both of the leaders were held to draws in their games against Arkadij Naiditsch and Fabiano Caruana, respectively. Meanwhile, the games Maxime Vachier against Levon Aronian and Peter Svidler versus Francisco Vallejo Pons also ended peacefully. The big result of the day came from the all-German clash between Vincent Keymer and Georg Meier, where the 14-year-old finally scored his first point in style.
